even when compared to the Life of St Wilfrid which was its basis. The poem adds nothing new to historian's knowledge of Wilfrid, and in Lapidge's view its sole purpose was to "demonstrate [Frithegod's] poetic skill which, in the mid-tenth century, was unparalleled elsewhere in England". Another reason for having both a verse and a prose life of a particular saint is given by the medieval scholar Alcuin, where he said that prose lives were meant to be read aloud to a monastic community, but that verses were to be used by individual monks for meditation and study. The Breviloquium contains a number of neologisms and Greek words, the rarity of some of which imply that Frithegod had some knowledge of the Greek language. The Breviloquium was influenced by Biblical hermeneutics, a type of study of biblical texts. The medieval scholar Eadmer, who used the poem on Wilfrid in his own works, said that the original poem was too full of Greek words to be read very often. A modern edition of the Breviloquium was published in 1950 with another edition appearing in the Biblioheca hagiographica latina series as number 8891. The historian Richard Gameson suggested that the copy of the Breviloquium in the Cotton Library as Claudius A.i on folios 5–36 was written by Frithegod himself, as it is in a mid-10th-century continental minuscule scribal hand, rather than the different English style of the Canterbury scriptorium. Besides the Cotton Library manuscript, two other manuscripts of the work exist. One is in Leningrad, catalogued as Public Library, 0. v. XIV, and the other is in Paris, in the Bibliotheque Nationale with the catalogue of lat. 8431. All three manuscripts probably date from the mid-10th century and were likely produced while Frithegod was still in Canterbury. They have glosses throughout, although most of the notations are in the Latin language rather than Old English. A prose preface to the Breviloquium exists, written in much the same dense style. It is claimed to have been written by Oda, although Lapidge suggests that it is possible that Frithegod wrote the preface also and ascribed it to his patron. Other works Frithegod wrote a number of other works, not all of which survive to the present day. A 16th-century antiquary, John Bale, knew of a manuscript that contained, besides the Breviloquium, a work on the life of St Ouen – whose relics Oda had